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Reinviting progress. - Unesco, October, 18th-19th 2008
Reinviting progress. - Unesco, October, 18th-19th 2008
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Reinventing progress. - Unesco, October, 18th-19th 2008
Unesco, 125 avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris

The programme will be updated regularly
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Saturday, October 18th | Sunday, October 19th


 Salle 1   Salle 4   Salle 12 
11:00 am

to

12:30 pm
1 - What are the big challenges of tomorrow ?

Introduced by: François Lemarchand, Chairman of Nature & Découvertes
Talk animated by: Thierry Guerrier, Journalist, France 5

Jean-Louis Borloo
Minister of State. Minister of the Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Planning.

Bertrand Piccard
Founder of Solar Impulse, psychiatrist

2 - What place for spirituality in progress ?

Talk animated by: Jean-Pierre Guéno, Journalist, writer

Luc Ferry
Philosopher

Jean Staune
Fondator of the Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris

   
2:30 pm

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4:00 pm
3 - Should we challenge the myth of progress

Talk animated by: Henry Lauret,

Boris Cyrulnik
Writer, neuropsychiatrist

Yves Paccalet
Writer, philosopher and naturalist

Pierre Rabhi
Chairman of non-profit organisation Terre et Humanisme

4 - What education to prepare for the knowledge society ?

Talk animated by: Olivier Rollot, Journalist

Marc Drillech
Managing Director of IONIS Education Group

Axel Kahn
Geneticist, President of Université Paris Descartes

Marc Luyckx
PhD in philosophy, Vice President of the Conseil Consultatif International d’Auroville

Bernard Ramanantsoa
Dean, HEC

Dominique Thys


   
4:30 pm

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6:00 pm
5 - Progress and work : the concept of work in tomorrow's society.

Talk animated by: Alain Weiller, Journalist

Jean-Christophe Le Duigou
Confederal Secretary of the CGT

Maria Nowak
Chairwoman of the Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique (ADIE – micro-finance nonprofit)

Jean Viard
Senior CNRS researcher with CEVIPOF, Sciences-Po political research centre

6 - What are the new indicators of progress ? How to measure the contribution of firms to the progress of Society.

Talk animated by: Daniel Fortin,

Jean-Luc Decornoy
Chairman of the Board of KPMG

Geneviève Ferone


Patrick Viveret
Philosopher, Senior member of the Auditor-General's Department

7 - New world, new standards, new civilisation of risk

Talk animated by: Léa Salamé, Journalist, France 24

Thierry Gaudin
Mining engineer, President of Prospective 2100

Frank Piedelièvre
Chairman, Bureau Veritas

Ezra Suleiman
Professor of International studies and politics at Princeton University

 
6:30 pm

to

7:30 pm
16 - Avant-première du documentaire "J'ai vu changer la Terre"

Production France 5/ Adamis Production


Réalisation Rébecca Boulanger